I awoke with a snap of consciousness.
　I slowly opened my eyes and sat up.

'Va!'

　Val, who had slapped me in the face with a flop, happily jumped over to me.
　........Good.
　I hugged Val reassuringly and squeezed her.

　........This is not another world.
　I'm not going to be able to say that this is a reincarnation, but it was never the original meaning of reincarnation.

　That's right. I was reincarnated, wasn't I?
　I immediately check my abilities.

"Blacksmith Level 1 0/10

　........This is my new level of blacksmithing, huh?
　First of all, the things I could create were extremely low.
　It seems to be able to make things in proportion to the level, but at the level 1 stage, there was no sign of being able to make anything but the things in this room.
　........And then there's the sword, right?

　Well, these can't be helped.
　Under that kind of contract, I chose to reincarnate.
　That's why - I should be able to make a divine weapon.

　I operate the window that appears in front of me.
　Then I arrived at an item.

'Creating a divine artifact'.

　...There it is.
　This, this is the power I was looking for.

　I go over the items while loosening my mouth.
　........The production of the divine artifacts seemed to be the same as before.

　The idea was that by destroying some kind of divine object, it would be possible to create it.
　........Making a divine artifact, huh?
　I didn't expect that such a thing would be possible.

　I can't help but feel my mouth relax.
　But.........it also seemed that someone's divine artifacts needed to be destroyed.

　.........Ha, what would happen to the person with the destroyed divine artifact?
　If it's destroyed, it's no longer useful?
　If that's the case, it's not so easy to use!

Va?

　Maybe it was because I was pulling my cheeks together, but Val tilted her head back.

''Well no, I mean. I just figured it wasn't going to be as easy as I thought it would be.
Va!

　Well, you're doing fine, and Val pats me on the head.
　I nod, patting Val's head back.

'Yeah, I guess.

　With Val's comfort, I'm going to look at more things.
　For now I'll just have to check things out.
　First of all, about the blacksmithing.

　In order to find out how much it has changed from the past.......I tried to make it first.
　For now, I'm going to build a chair that was in the room.

　To make it, I first manipulate the letters that appeared in front of me.
　Then I put my finger on the thing I want to make and apply magic to it, and it seems that I can make the item.

　When you create an item, it will be put away in an item box-like existence, as usual.
　However, this item also seemed to have a capacity.
　The moment I created one, it was displayed as 1/10.

　........I see. It seems that each item increases by 1.
　So, I can only have 10 items now.

　And it seems that when I take out an item, I can choose a point.
　The range of my sight, I guess.
　........Put another way, using this, you may be able to attack from a distance.

　In a way, its usability has increased considerably.
　As a test, I unfolded the chair at a little distance, and a magic circle appeared there, and the chair appeared.
　.........For now, it's not so different from before as far as the creation of things are concerned.

　With the decrease in my level, my own abilities have also decreased, haven't they?　I thought, but my magic power and other abilities didn't seem to have changed in any way.
　As I was checking my abilities, I noticed that the numbers next to my level had changed.

　Level 1 1/10.
　I'm going to try to create a few other things.
　And every time I created one item, the level went up.

　........I created a potion and drank it repeatedly for now, and then raised it to level 2.

'Your level has been raised to level 2. We have confirmed that new skills have been granted and items that can be created have been increased!

　.........Whoa, the level has increased.
　I didn't think I would be able to grant skills anymore.
　The number of items that can be created has increased, but the number of things that can be created has only increased.

　It seems that five skills can be given, for now.
　I'm going to be able to give it to you in the following five ways: strength enhancement, durability enhancement, dexterity enhancement, agility enhancement, and magical power enhancement.
　I'm going to be able to give it to you.

　I'm going to try to create a sword to test it out. When I put magic power into it, a sword is created, and I gave it a power-strengthening skill.

　Sword: Strengthening F-rank

　...Strengthening F-rank, right?
　Skill granting was then done several times.
　After repeating it five times, the level went up to 3.

　
　In the meantime, I'll try it again and again until I can grant the sword a strength-enhancing S-rank.

　........It consumed a mess of magic power, and in the end I was only able to do it when I got to level 5.
　At any rate, granting S rank seems to be harder than before.
　The range of things I can create has increased, but the new skill grants aren't out now.

　At any rate, it's not a total inconvenience.
　But........for now, I'd like to create a divine artifact once. That's what I was thinking about.
　And while I was thinking about that, there was a knock on my room.
　Who's there?　I stepped out into the hallway and saw Ristina.

'What's going on?'
Oh, no, I mean. I received a letter for a senior, so I came to deliver it.

　Lystina handed me a letter.
　I looked at it and saw Lynn's name. I quickly opened it.

'Long time no see, Lelius. I have some business to attend to near the city of Carlaus. So I'll come see you when I have time.

　It was something like that in content.
　I looked at the letter in various ways, and it seems that Linn is staying in a city just east of Carlaz.

　 But if there was time, huh?
　If I didn't have time, I wouldn't be doing this, would I?

　

Senior, what's going on?
'Mr. Ristina. I'm not busy right now, so I think I'm going to head east for a bit to the town of Berkle.

　........I don't have a job anyway.
　When I replied to that, Ristina-san looked at me as if she was a little surprised.

''Could it be that the letter's........Lin-san, was it?　Are you here to see Miss Lynn?
Yes.
.........well, I mean........ Lelius-senpai, you and Lin-san were childhood friends, weren't you?
Yeah.
...do you like it?
'Huh!　No, no, no, not at all!

　What the hell are you talking about?
　There was no indication that she was teasing, and Ristina-san seemed genuinely concerned.

''We're just, like, childhood friends. ........well, we're like family, I guess.
'Family!　Are you already thinking about getting married?!
'No, sir!　She's just like a sister to me!

　I look back at the letter while returning a sigh to Ristina-san who says something outlandish.
　........It's been a long time since I've seen you, isn't it?